Monday, January 9, 2012

Update on occupy Kano Day 1 protest

Below is an update report of the happening in kano on the occupy nigeria protest going on nation wide:

AT THE BEGINING:
The protest organized by the Kano grand coalition of ASUU, NLC, TUC, Students etc, went as planned but in the process there was large turn out of people (uninvited) across all ages and gender expressing their grievances and showing their disapproval with the ill-conceived policy of fuel subsidy removal by the jonathan led administration.

THE HAPPENINGS:
Surprisingly, the crowd outing is unprecedented in the history of Kano as the liberation square, race course and lodge road, the places reserved by the protestants for camping, cannot contained the crowd, and there were series of mis understanding with the security personnel because they failed to allow them to pass through state road to liberation square, and in the process they(police men) shot 9 people and two were confirmed dead. The killing took place at the government house round about, and the protesting people who camped at the liberation square where seriously tear gassed and dispersed.

More over, the protestants staged a come back and re occupy the liberation square and bowed to spend their night at the square.

THE NLC COALITION AND THE CROWD:
The grand coalition under NLC after studying the atmosphere moved away from liberation square to race course where they addressed fellow protestants with lectures and bowed to carry on with the protest no matter what. They also informed us that they are going to see the state commissioner of police to reevaluate their agreement.

It is important to note that the coalition members under NLC did a lot in terms of controlling the protesting crowd.

NLC PRESS CONFERENCE:
NLC had a press conference at 4:30pm, where they addressed the media guys on the situation under review and promised to take legal action on the brutal behavior displayed by the police. They informed the coalition members to meet tomorrow again at the labor house by 9am for the 2nd day protest where an undisclosed venue is expected to be the venue of camping.

CURFEW IMPOSED:
We also heard of curfew imposed by the state government 6pm to 8am.

We will not relent!
Let's go occupy kano!
#occupynigeria#

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